AI generated content, which now includes incredibly convincing videos of people, will grow exponentially over the next weeks, months, and years.
At some point, the majority of the content you see will be fake, and any usefulness or connection to humans will be lost.
Even information that you might have previously been able to confirm from a trusted source can (and will) be manipulated in some way, making verification impossible.
This lack of verification, along with the speed at which fake content can now be generated, will make it impossible to defend against.
Even the world of art and communication has been tainted, serving no connection to real people through this digital hellscape.
To that end, when will the internet be so untrustworthy, “soulless”, and useless to you that it crosses the tipping point?
EDIT: Ok, holy fuck. There’s actually a term for what I’m describing: “The Dead Internet Theory”
I see more of a future with a parallel internet similar to the dark web and fragmented local mesh networks on one side, and the other side corporate slop internet.
In 2019, I talked to the founder of Zynga. He was trying to create a social network and compiled a massive document on how people communicate and the competing social networks.
Some takeaways:
Your prediction matches what’s happening.
Like the cyberpunk universe were the old internet (our current internet) is an AI infested hellscape.
Yes! That’s it, I knew I saw it somewhere and it stuck with me.
Like with the Gemini protocol perhaps? (I’ve not checked in on that in a while though)
I didn’t know about that protocol, I just took a glance at the wikipedia page and it seems interesting.
We are heading back to the BBS model and as an old man now I am fuckin here for it. 🤝